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On the eighteenth of October, the New York papers reported the appearance of a remarkable meteor which had been seen in mid-Pacific, and the far more startling announcement that it was feared that the amazing celestial visitor had struck and destroyed a steamship.
"At eleven-fifteen last evening," read the account in the _Herald_, "the Panama-Hawaiian Line steamship _Chiriqui_ reported by radio the appearance of an immense meteor which suddenly appeared above the horizon to the southeast, and which increased rapidly in size and brilliance. Within ten minutes from the time the phenomenon was first sighted, it appeared as a huge greenish sphere of dazzling brilliance high in the sky, and heading, apparently, directly for the _Chiriqui_. Almost at the same time as reported by the _Chiriqui_, several other ships, among them the Miners and Merchants Line _Vulcan_, and the Japanese liner _Fujiama Maru_ also reported the meteorite, although they were more than one thousand miles apart and equidistant from the position of the _Chiriqui_.